Why should Christians take a position on the gender identity issue?

In our time today, Christians are continually faced with the question of how to think about the cultural issues that are going on? Do we take position or if we have a position, how active should we be in either supporting or opposing what's going on? One of the main cultural conversations that's happening right now is that of gender identity and transgenderism. The question becomes why should Christians care about this? Why should we have a position? Is there a Christian position? That's what we're going to talk about today.

I think there are three reasons, at least, that Christians should care about this conversation and care about taking a very specific stance on this position.

The first point is, it's a denial of creation and perhaps more importantly creation purpose. If we say that however I feel is how I should act, that means we weren't created with the express purpose of functioning as either a male or a female. This trend towards you deciding your gender, it not being rooted in reality or in your biology or anything like that, is actually fundamentally a denial of the fact that we were created and that we were created by God. We weren't just made as androgynous person one and androgynous person two as though we don't have a defined sex, that's kind of what androgynous means. God made us male, distinctly male. That is a type of human and he made another type of human called female. He made these two things for a very specific purpose, because they are to come together and unite, one man, one woman, for one lifetime to create the next generation and provide for it's flourishing.

That's God's design there, but that's not all actually. Because the new Testament in multiple places, picks up this man-woman marriage picture and uses it to help us understand Christ and his love and sacrifice for the church. It totally blows-up the Christ-church analogy and parallel if we say that the bride can choose to be a groom, and that those roles don't really work and they're not meaningful. The new Testament has no concept of that in part, because it would just really distort that Christ-church picture but more than that, because at the heart of saying I can choose my gender is the denial of the fact that God had a purpose in making distinctly male humans and a purpose in making distinctly female humans.

When we say gender is up for grabs, we are denying that there's actually a purpose to how we were made. Take out the fact that we're made in the image of God, which is really important, and we've talked about that a lot. If we say gender isn't a defined thing, then we're saying there's not really a purpose to why we are the way we are. This shouldn't surprise us for a culture that believes evolution explains the arrival and flourishing of life, well of course they don't believe in a creator but that doesn't mean we should encourage people in that.

That's our first point: the reason we should take a position where gender is actually rooted in reality, rooted in biology, rooted in how God made us, is because the opposite of that is denying the fact that God, this God we know and worship, actually created people male and female for a reason.

The second reason we should take a position on this, is actually out of loving our neighbor. The first is a very God centered approach. We don't want to profane what God has created and called good, by the way. The second is out of loving our neighbor. I think most Christians would say that God's way is best. God sets up this pattern in the bible where men leave their parents, women leave their parents and one of each come together and are married. We just talked about…